Etka Yapar

The paper studies microRNA and target expression variation in mouse embryonic stem cells using genetic perturbation and single-cell RNA-seq, finding four co-expression groups and mixed effects on target variation.

This paper compares methods to reduce reference bias and postmortem damage in ancient genome data, finding that graph alignment and bamRefine improve accuracy and genotyped loci.

This study uses genome-level data to resolve the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of planthoppers, identifying new taxonomic placements and dating the origin of the group to the Permian period.

The paper examines somatic copy number variant (CNV) frequencies in neurons from Alzheimer's disease patients and healthy controls using low-coverage single-cell whole-genome sequencing, finding slightly higher CNV frequencies in AD patients but no statistically significant differences.

The paper analyzes testis transcriptomes across primates to show convergent evolution linked to mating strategies, finding both tissue composition shifts and cell-autonomous changes.